I recently got my hands on a tablet computer. I tend to at least dual boot my systems. While doing some research about tablet computing and *nix most of the information was from the 2004-2008 era light years ago in computing time.

What is the current state of tablet computing? I want something that works out of the box with minimal fuss - I'm way past the point that futzing with things is worth the time I spend on it.

Specifically I'm looking to have features comparable to windows 7 + office:

Virtual Keyboard - selectable handwriting / touch keyboard

OneNote replacement

Navigation via pen

What distribution out there has really good tablet support of the box in 2010?

There is WeTab which is a German Tablet PC (it has english as language as well) running MeeGo (reference to WeTab) which is a Linux based operating system.

It has a virtual keyboard, runs Open Office, and is navigable "by pen" or rather via its touchscreen.

I'm not sure if I can recommend it though, since it has quite a few bugs when a friend tested it yesterday (after he installed all software updates). Its touchscreen can get messed up for instance leaving you with no keyboard at all, or having you click somewhere else on the screen than you thought. But since they released the thing just this month perhaps you should expect some issues, and hope for a software update...

If you look beyond the bugs (if it works as expected that is) it's quite neat with Flash (read youtube) support, Wifi, and the fact that it runs Linux (it even has a shell available in it's WeTab store, for free). There are a few youtube videos around as well.

@Zypher: Yeah, just thought that the "MeeGo"-distribution is on a tablet PC as a default install, so it should be able to install on another one, as it should be open source.
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PatrickOct 10 '10 at 2:02